As part of the quest to make the WSN T34 more "user friendly" I decided to take the plunge and convert the internals of what is a brand new tank, into a HL S&S machine. Doing this should give me a much better control using HL circuitry. Unfortunately this also means that the Infra Red "battle" circuitry has to be lost. Seeing as how I only have the one WSN tank anyway, and that this IR system is solely WSN specific, removal was not going to be a great loss.
Following the advice of Wackywheels and using his excellent schematics, I took the plunge and "gutted" the internals, removing the battery box with a bit of "dremelling". I did try the cotton-cutting method at one point then realised that I was cutting stuff I shouldn't when I was on the "blind side", so the dremel was used!! I then glued the battery cover over the hole, and will eventually get around to filling the seams / holes. The board / cables had already been removed, (unfortunately I made the bad mistake of cutting the cables thinking that it would be easier to re-wire the new boards...bad move!!) so I decided to fit the main board to one of the original pillars using the other pillars as supports (they didn't align with the holes anyway). The small board was also attached using one of the pre-drilled support holes on the tank base. Both boards seem nice and firm, so I'm quite happy with this for now.

Then came the wiring!!

The original motor wires had small plugs which were a brilliant fit ....for the smoker and sound sockets!!, but alas, off they came, as the wires needed to be attached to the S&S boards with solder. The speaker was attached with some double-sided sticky pads to the tank base, then plugged into the board. Both boards were then connected and the task of sorting the wiring started. Thanks to Wackywheels pictures, this was made fairly easily, although wacky's tank was a non-IR version, and his tank wires were a different colour, but his labelling certainly made it easier to locate the wires when you knew where they were coming from. So with a bit of patience, the wires were sourced and connected, with at least one exception...a black wire.....mmmmmm now where does this go??????

Lots of face pulling (not enough hair to pull anyway) and grunting later, still no clue!! OK, leave this one for now, but hang on, what about the other ten or so thin wires that are not connected???? Ha!! the IR stuff, Oh dear, there are a few of 'em arn't there???? Errr.... now what do I do???

fv432 to the rescue..."Rip 'em out" he cries....."What??? says I, "Sell 'em on the 'bay" says he...."Good idea"!!
So, last night, one by one, off they came, and as I took them out, I collated a schematic so fellow tankers would benefit, I hope, and someone out there might find this little lot useful.
I'll add the schematic for now (I hope) and continue the T34 saga anon.

Bye for now fellow tankers